Americans are sore losers!

[mankie]

SHE LOST....GET OVER IT.
 
 Crowd behavior affected Serena
 By MaliVai Washington
 Special to ESPN.com
 
 
 PARIS -- All tournament long, Justine Henin-Hardenne has had a lot of crowd support because she's from Belgium, where a huge portion of the population speaks French. It's not a surprise that much of the crowd was for Henin-Hardenne in the semifinal against Serena Williams.
 
 In addition, I think a lot of people wanted to see someone other than Williams in the final.
 
 However, I thought the crowd at times showed poor taste toward Serena. There were a couple of occasions when the linesperson didn't call the ball out and Serena stopped in the middle of a point to circle the mark and the chair umpire confirmed that the ball was out. Serena was completely in the right, but the crowd reacted negatively toward her. After that, they proceeded to cheer when Serena would miss the first serve, which is completely inappropriate.
 
 I think the crowd was definitely a factor in the match, when you have an extremely rowdy crowd there are times when it works in your favor and there are times it works against you. Two days ago, the crowd was for Amelie Mauresmo and it worked against her because she couldn't handle the pressure. Thursday, the crowd was for Henin-Hardenne and at times got ugly toward Serena and that affected her

[ggw]

So, next time Colin Montgomerie comes over here and complains about the crowd, you'll call the Brits sore losers and tell him to "shut up and get over it" right?

[mankie]

Originally posted by ggw:
  So, next time Colin Montgomerie comes over here and complains about the crowd, you'll call the Brits sore losers and tell him to "shut up and get over it" right?

Absolutely!
 what's even worse...he's Scottish, you think he'd be used to losing by now.
 
 Golf is for old men and poofters anyway, it's not even a sport.
 
 What sport should be about is giving the player a standing ovation who just scored three goals and secured your teams exit from the greatest club competition in footie! (where did that happen again???)

[jadetree]

Originally posted by mankie:
 

Originally posted by ggw:
 [qb]
 
 What sport should be about is giving the player a standing ovation who just scored three goals and secured your teams exit from the greatest club competition in footie! (where did that happen again???) [/b]

So you agree that something was wrong with the crowd then, other than being French?

[Santos L. Halper]

I wonder if the fact that Serena used a fake French accent to mock France for not backing "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has anything to do with the French booing her.  Nah, probably not.

[mankie]

The girl that opened a can 'o' whoopass on her is Belgian!

[mankie]

Originally posted by eertedaj:
 

 So you agree that something was wrong with the crowd then, other than being French?
 
 [/b]

If the crowd paid their money to get in then they can cheer for who they damn-well  they want to....don't you think?
 
 Look, all I'm saying is if you get your arse kicked don't come crying with any lame excuses about the crowd..if that was the case the away team would never win, no matter what the sport.

[keithstg]

Originally posted by mankie:
 Look, all I'm saying is if you get your arse kicked don't come crying with any lame excuses about the crowd..if that was the case the away team would never win, no matter what the sport. [/QB]

Very true, but Serena Williams wasn't making that argument, and didn't write that article, MaliVai Washington did. It's not as if Serena is crying about it, at least to my knowledge.

[ggw]

Originally posted by eertedaj:
  So you agree that something was wrong with the crowd then, other than being French?

Isn't that enough?

[mankie]

Originally posted by keithstg:
 

 Very true, but Serena Williams wasn't making that argument, and didn't write that article, MaliVai Washington did. It's not as if Serena is crying about it, at least to my knowledge.
 
 [/b]

My comment wasn't directed to Serena, that's why I said "she lost" not "you lost"... and why I made the comparison to the standing ovation Ronaldo got, and why GGW's comment was somewhat irrelevant (but what's new?).
 
 By the way, I can't help but like Agassi but have you noticed that at press conferences after a game, if he's lost it's always because of something he did or didn't do rather than congratulate his oponent on a great victory.

[jadetree]

Originally posted by keithstg:
  Very true, but Serena Williams wasn't making that argument, and didn't write that article, MaliVai Washington did. It's not as if Serena is crying about it, at least to my knowledge.

She actually was crying on the court from what I read.

[mankie]

Originally posted by eertedaj:
 

 She actually was crying on the court from what I read.
 
 [/b]

Birds always cry when they lose....and win!
 
 I don't think that's a sign of being a sore loser. Evidently she was a little ungracious with the handshake though, so maybe she is.

[markie]

Originally posted by mankie:
   I always cry when I lose....and win!
 
 

I am glad you are in touch with your feminine side. Must be why you want to throw your knickers at Tom Jones

[mankie]

Originally posted by Andrew WK:
 

 I am glad you touch your feminine friends. Must be why they want to throw their knickers at you
 
 [/b]

Indeed!

[mankie]

Originally posted by Andrew WK:
 

 I am glad you are in touch with your feminine side. Must be why you want to throw your knickers at Tom Jones
 
 [/b]

rather Tom than Billy, or Andrew, or Damon. (you slut)